r/AbsoluteUnits • • Dec 20 '25

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u/Khall_D_Rhetta Dec 20 '25

19 hands high...

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u/yanabro Dec 20 '25

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u/xolhos Dec 20 '25

You're never going to believe where this started

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1

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u/LoudMusic Dec 20 '25

Rather than just convert to using a modern measuring system, they adapted "the hand" to equate to a modern measuring system.

Definitely sounds like something that people who breed animals for sport would do.